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THE BEE, 



OR 



LirERARY WEEKLY INrELLIGENCER., 



I 



FOR 

 WEDNESDAY JANUARY 11. lypS. 



SKETCH OF THE LIFE 



JOHN, EARL OF MARR^ 



(Continued from page 9.) 



JVIarr being thus superseded in the confidence and 

 favour of the king by d'Aubigny, and afterwards 

 bj Arrai, though he remained at court and was 

 of the king's bed-chamber, attached himself to op- 

 position and the party of Morton, who being an 

 bid and crafty politician, courted the earl of Marr, 

 as the son of the respectable and beloved regent ; 

 the hereditary governor of the castle of Stirling, 

 -and custodier of the king's person during his mi- 

 nority. 



Morton found it easy to infuse into the mind of 



young Marr, not only resentments on account of 



the neglects of James, but jealousies on account of 



"lie afsuming authority of his own uncle. Sir Alex- 



der Erfkine of Gogar, his tutor, and trustee for 



iic keeping of the king's person and the castle of 



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